Police enforcement guidelines

The Vancouver Police Department created guidelines in consultation with Pivot and other community groups that require officers to prioritize sex workers’ safety over law enforcement. The guidelines direct police to not harass, target, arrest, or intimidate sex workers. Pivot and SWUAV have asked other municipal police departments and the RCMP to adopt similar policies.

We invite you to join us in recognizing that we are on stolen lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default.